Sherzad A. Shabu has MSc and PhD degree in Community Medicine from Hawler Medical University. He is an Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at the College of Medicine, and the Director of Quality Assurance at Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. He teaches different courses including Biostatiistics, Social Medicine, Health policy and planning, etc.

His current research work is mainly related to obesity, evidence-based health policy, knowledge transfer and exchange in health care, prevalence of chronic diseases.

He has supervised different research groups of undergraduate students in an avaerage of four groups per year, on different research topics.